Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award Winners
1991
Jones, Plummer Alston Jr. "American Public Library Service to the Immigrant Community, 1876-1948."
1993
Not awarded
1995
Martin, Marilyn. From Altruism to Activism: The Contribution of Women's Organizations to Arkansas Public Libraries."
1997
Pawley, Christine. "Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1870 to 1900.”
Certificate of Merit: Christine Jenkins, "The Strength of the Inconspicuous: Youth Services Librarians, the American Library Association, and Intellectual Freedom for the Young, 1939-1955."
1999
Graham, P. Toby. “Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Public Libraries, 1918-1965.”
2001
Mildred L. Jackson. “Do What You Can: Creating an Institution, Ladies’ Library Associations in Michigan, 1850-1900.”
2003
Not awarded
2005
Bonnie Mak. "(re)Defining the Page for a Digital World."
2007
Not awarded
2009
Karen J Cook. "Freedom Libraries in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project: A History."
2011
Susan Reynolds. "The Establishment of the Library of the Supreme Court of Victoria, 1851-1884: Antecedents, Foundation, and Legacy."
